Programming language of aunt's calculator: turned a calculator (boring) into something you can program (cool!). Editing was tedious, so it made me figure it out

Programming language of aunt's calculator: turned a calculator (boring) into something you can program (cool!). Editing was tedious, so it made me figure it out on paper first (good thing!). ZX Spectrum Basic - at your fingertips mere fractions of a second after powerup. Can your Eclipse do that? Z80 assembly language - so fast and so powerful. Magic knowledge for gaining infinite lives in games. Pascal - structured programming and type safety for the win. C - nothing in your way, the only limit is yourself ;) C++ - it has classes! OCaml - the pinnacle of type safety without typing the types (excuse the pun). And its fast. Smalltalk - all you need to know about the object-oriented paradigm is there. Java - Has libraries for everything. Delphi - I think it's still the fastest way for putting together a decent looking windows GUI app. Python - I couldn't put it better than: http://xkcd.com/353/ http://xkcd.com/353/ Clojure - its constructs for concurrent programming are life changing. And it's a Lisp. With extra readability for the parentheses-challenged. With a very well thought out standard lib.